Shag The Store is indeed a project by the same owners of M Modern. They have quite the inventory of Shag, so a solo store could make sense. It'll be right in the heart of the uptown design district which is perfect - great mid-century furniture stores, Design Within Reach, and fantastic restaurants.

Currently, there's an entire room devoted to Shag at M Modern. This will free up some space there so M can feature other artists.

From the sounds of it, there'll be several Shag related events this year at Modernism Week.

as I hate to tut my own horn, I have to say this...... As someone who has had an event joined with M Modern in the past. (TIKI CALIENTE -M MODERN'S 5 year anniversary show) I am very good friends with Jay and MiShell from M Modern who were looking down town for the first Shag Shore.

But the fact was this.....

in my opinion........and not loved by the modernism group from Palm Springs.

Down Town is DEAD and TOO MUCH MONEY for the location because of the whole historical significance aspect of Palm Springs.

I told Jay from M Modern to look at the storage area next to my job at Trio (707 Palm Canyon) to Put the first Shag Store.

First of all.....

we have an average of over 300 people on any weekend night .

Plus..... all the mid century furniture shop"s surround us.

Plus,... 1/4th the rent

Please stop by modernism weekend were I will be bartending the Shag lunch party at TRIO and Drinking at the the Tropics Art show later that night.

My mom is so funny. For some reason, she has a copy of TheBottomLine magazine, and there's an add for the TRIO lunch. She woke me up this morning to show me, and saying how she wanted to take me. I opened one eye, and said "I know, I already made reservations for 3" lol but bless her heart for trying. But also in the mag is another add for the shag store. Here's what it entails:

Rory, I'm sure I'll be seeing a whole lot of you during that time period lol. Unfortunatly everybody, I tried the website and nothing came up, so idk what's going on with that. maybe it'll be launched by the first of Feb.

Come be one of the first to visit SHAG (the Store) on Saturday, February 13th at 2:30pm. This is a store designed by SHAG and featuring tons of SHAG Merchandise!. There will be Artist Proof prints from previously sold out editions, Limited Edition Merchandise that has not been available for quite some time and special SHAG items that will be unique to the store only!

The official GRAND OPENING will be announced in the coming weeks and even more new merchandise and prints should have arrived by then. Hey, but why wait for the Grand Opening when you can get an early visit in now and see most of the store completed?.

NOTE: You should be able to grab your copy of the NEW "Relentless Party" print at the SHAG store if you missed getting one the night before at the gallery reception.

I peaked into the store tonight; it is "sorta" open for Modernismweek. The store is right on main drag, Palm Canyon next to Trio restaurant (which is also showing Shag's artwork). There are probably 25 pieces on display; it is not entirely finished yet. No furniture except a Jacobsen swan chair in red on an orange shag carpet in the back next to the register, and a cool tiki wall (orange irregular stone wall ala your favorite tiki hotel/restaurant with a large brown brown tiki face on it - they are in a "lifelike shag" style - so , not your pure wood/tiki look but instead , Shag's signature cartoony look brought into reality). I was at the M Modern gallery where some of his work is on display right now; his partner (store operator?) said something about them trying to keep the store open this week for modernism week but that the grand opening was maybe in May?

Yes, we have unofficially opened the first retail store dedicated to the artist SHAG. The store is simply called SHAG and the official grand opening will be on Saturday, May 8th, 2008. We did a soft opening during the Modernism Week here in Palm Springs as I was one of the founding members of Modernism Week and we thought it would be cool to provide a sneak peek for people to see. The store is still quite a ways from being complete, however, the front of the store should look just like the rendering by SHAG on the website at http://www.shagthestore.com . Please be sure come out for the opening as we will have many new SHAG items at that time that will be exclusive to the store and SHAG will be present that weekend (of course).